The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-03-04

The Texas State Senate, by vote Of u
to 8. has passed q prohibitory amendment
to the constitution, which will be submit
ted to the people ON the first Tuesday Of
August next
COMMODORE WILLIAM T. TRUxToN, United
States Navy, retired, died suddenly ct his
home in Norfolk. Va. on the 18th.
HENRY n. STANLEY arrived at Zanzibar
on the I'D.
THE negotiations between the Govern
ments of France and Morocco for the sup
preston Of brigandage on the frontier OF
Algiers and Morocco, do not modify in any
way the frontier delimitation.
RETURNS from the German elections, as
known ON the I'D were more favorable to
the Government, and it was believed the
Septennists would have fair working ma
jority in the new Reichstag. The Socialist
gains in Berlin &nd other large cities were
Offset by losses in the provinces.
THE Canadian elections took place on the
ed The result was favora BILE to the Mac
donald Government, the Conservatives be-
ing in good majority.
IT is reported that in return for the
Pope's re,'cnt friendship Germany has con-
sented to act as mediator between the Ital-
ian Government and the Vatican. The Vat
leans proposal is that part of Rome, in
GLIDING "Leonine City" and zone extended
from the Vatican to the sea by Civita Vec-
CHA, shall become the absolute property Of
the Pope.
TERRIBLE and disastrous earthquake
shocks occurred in the southeastern part Of
France and the northwestern part Of Italy
on the morning Of the 23d. At Crevo, near
Diano Marino. 300 lives were lost At Noli,
near Genoa, fiftee: lives were lost, and at
Oneglia six were killed. Scores were also
reported killed at Diano Marine. The num-
Der of injured run into the thousands. The
shocks were felt at Nice, ToulOn, Marseilles,
Genoa, Cannes, Turin, Milan and as far as
Geneva. The damage to property was in
calculable.
SIGNoR DEPRETIs, of Italy, has failed to
form a new cabinet and has, resigned his
commission.
THE Portuguese have bombarded Funge,
town in Zanzibar. Reinforcements have
been sent from Portugal to the Governor Of
Mozambique.
THE British steamship Weatherall has
been sunk in a collision with a bark and one
of the crew has been lost.
ments of the Russian press that Russia will
abstain from action IN Bulgaria until tho
relations between France and Germany be-
come more clearly defined are intended to
divert the attention of the powers from
Bulgaria, where startling surprises may be
apprehended.
THE newspapers of Paris are jubilant'over
the result of the election in Alsace- Lorraine.
THE people of the Sanwan islands have
positively declined to be annexed to the
Sandwich islands.
WoRKMEN and Socialists INDUCED in o
free fight in an Amsterdam cafe the other
night and the police had hard work restor-
ing order.
AN unknown schooner has been wrecked
on the coast of Vancouvcr's island. Twelve
OF the crew were drowned.
THE British bark Fanny Atkinson, Cap
tain Hawthorne, was abandoned, water
logged, February Z, in the Gulf of Mexico,
while on a voyage from ApalachicOla for
Belfast. The British steamer Costa Rican,
from New Orleans rescued the crew and
set fire to the vessel.
DISPATCHES from Rome of the oath stated
that the victims of the recent earthquake
numbered thousands In the GenOese
Riviera two thousand were reported killed,
three hundred being killed in a church,
whittier they went after the first shock.
The second shock appeared to be the most
fatal.
THE jury at Dublin trying the cases of
Dillon, O'Brien, Redmond and others, the
Nationalist, reported that they were una
BILE to agree.
IT is reported that three officers impli-
Gated in the recently discovered military
plot have been hanged at st. Petersburg.
The Russian Government has strictly en-
joined official secrecy respecting the con-
spiracy.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenbe-g, ex-
ruler of Bulgaria, is suffering with small
pox and not gastric fever, as at first sup
posed.
THE Reichsrath at Vienna has passed the
extra military credit for equlppIng the
landsturm. The vote was unanimous.
IT is rumored that the German Govern
ment has given orders for extensive ma
neuvers of the German feet in the Baltic in
August.
THE French Senate by vote of 21O to &c
reinserted in the budget the credit for sub
projects, the rejection of which by the
Chamber of Deputies was the cause of the
overthrow of the Freycinet Ministry.
AN alternative scheme for gradually
abollshing the importation Of iron into Rus
STA has been submitted. The Imperial
Council proposes either to gradually pro-
hibit imports of iron or gradually increase
the duties until they become prohibitory.